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Cloud adoption is on the rise globally, but one key piece of infrastructure threatens to put the brakes on this trend. As more businesses access cloud services, much of their traffic is shifting from the easily managed LAN to the Wild-West WAN, and I’m not convinced the WAN is up to the task of keeping up with so many converging trends that demand ever-higher bandwidth: cloud, mobility, social media, streaming media, etc.In its…See More

Cloud adoption is on the rise globally, but one key piece of infrastructure threatens to put the brakes on this trend. As more businesses access cloud services, much of their traffic is shifting from the easily managed LAN to the Wild-West WAN, and I’m not convinced the WAN is up to the task of keeping up with so many converging trends that demand ever-higher bandwidth: cloud, mobility, social media, streaming media, etc.In its…See More

When you cover CES as a member of the press, pretty much everyone asks you, "What were the big trends this year?" Even people attending the show ask you that because most spend their times stuck in meetings and conference rooms and never get a chance to walk the floor to get a real overview. Judging from coverage elsewhere, the trends that stood out to me didn't seem to be on other people's radar. Yes, the Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses are very cool, but I'm skeptical about them…See More

When you cover CES as a member of the press, pretty much everyone asks you, "What were the big trends this year?" Even people attending the show ask you that because most spend their times stuck in meetings and conference rooms and never get a chance to walk the floor to get a real overview. Judging from coverage elsewhere, the trends that stood out to me didn't seem to be on other people's radar. Yes, the Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses are very cool, but I'm skeptical about them…See More

"Mostly, I agree with you, Laura, but I think there is one trend that could bridge the divide: the fact that marketing departments are starting to spend as much/more on tech than IT departments are. Marketing tends to be one of the biggest reasons…"

"Great points, Scott. The only wearable tech devices that I saw that actually seemed to have a chance to catch on were the Pebble Smartwatch, which actually looks like a watch, rather than some bulky Star Trek device, and a few of the e-health…"

In my last post, I griped about the embarrassing state of networking in the U.S. and set out to investigate how to make things better. This was right before I attended the Interop conference, and now I'm in the press room before my first meeting at the spring's big wireless conference, CTIA.At both of these shows, I’m asking people why the networking status quo in the U.S. isn’t better, and I’m investigating…See More

It's a dirty little secret that U.S. carriers and telcos don't want you to know: Networking in this country is terrible. U.S. broadband speeds lag behind South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, and many others.The country that is the home of Silicon Valley, which has created so many computing advances, is also home to a dysfunctional political system, one that has buckled to the fierce political lobbying largely…See More

It's a dirty little secret that U.S. carriers and telcos don't want you to know: Networking in this country is terrible. U.S. broadband speeds lag behind South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, and many others.The country that is the home of Silicon Valley, which has created so many computing advances, is also home to a dysfunctional political system, one that has buckled to the fierce political lobbying largely…See More

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I'm a journalist who has been covering tech trends for more than a dozen years. I've written for such publications as Forbes.com, Network World, CIO, Datamation, Wi-Fi Planet, Cloudbook and many others. Recently, I founded my own startup-focused site, Startup50. I also own and run the copywriting and content marketing site, Sandstorm Media.

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When you cover CES as a member of the press, pretty much everyone asks you, "What were the big trends this year?" Even people attending the show ask you that because most spend their times stuck in meetings and conference rooms and never get a chance to walk the floor to get a real overview.

Judging from coverage elsewhere, the trends that stood out to me didn't seem to be on other people's radar. Yes, the Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses are very cool, but I'm skeptical about…

Cloud adoption is on the rise globally, but one key piece of infrastructure threatens to put the brakes on this trend. As more businesses access cloud services, much of their traffic is shifting from the easily managed LAN to the Wild-West WAN, and I’m not convinced the WAN is up to the task of keeping up with so many converging trends that demand ever-higher bandwidth: cloud, mobility, social media, streaming media, etc.

In my last post, I griped about the embarrassing state of networking in the U.S. and set out to investigate how to make things better. This was right before I attended the Interop conference, and now I'm in the press room before my first meeting at the spring's big wireless conference, CTIA.

At both of these shows, I’m asking people why the networking status quo in the U.S. isn’t better, and I’m…

It's a dirty little secret that U.S. carriers and telcos don't want you to know: Networking in this country is terrible. U.S. broadband speeds lag behind South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, and many others.

The country that is the home of Silicon Valley, which has created so many computing advances, is also home to a dysfunctional political system, one that has buckled to the fierce political…